Oh you just said a mouthful there sister
December 27, 2008My mom got the Sex and the City movie DVD for Christmas this year. My brothers mentioned that they’d probably watch it, so I started telling them about the neighbor Dante’s full frontal shot. Then I had to reenact seeing the movie in the theater, sitting next to my mother not only through the girls’ sex scenes but then through a screen full of peen. Tramatic.
My brother asked me if I’d seen Eastern Promises, where apparently Viggo Mortensen drops trou and has a fight scene in the buff. No, I hadn’t seen it, but I sure will be seeing it now. Anyway, his point was that the nakedness was apparently pretty gratuitous and turned into what he called a sausage fest, though as I understand it there was only one sausage, albeit a lot of it.
So I’d never even heard of Eastern Promises until Thursday, and here Jorge Garcia is talking about the same thing. Nobody has ever warned me about too many boobies or cootch being in a movie. I think the message is clear – it is our duty to help Viggo change the world and even out the male/female nudity ratio in film. It is our duty to see this work of art. And hell, weiner aside, it’s Viggo Mortensen. It’s gotta be pretty good even without his naked bod. The naked bod is probably just a bonus for those of us who have been extra good this year.
Hear Hear! and Amen. I watched Eastern Promises for the Viggo angle and then got the gratuitous nudity bonus. It’s not bad and I give him points for a nude fight scene.
If there was a requirement for nudity parity and if men had to show as much in movies as they take for granted on women, there would be fewer gratuitous boob shots or perhaps more butt shots.
>if men had to show as much in movies as they take for granted on women, there would be fewer gratuitous boob shots
Hmmm… not so sure about that… I think shirtless men are relatively common in the movies. We’ve just be *so* objectified that seeing male boobs hardly even registers.
(/me ducks :)
O, Viggo. That is all.
nude man grappling – the Grecco-Romans had it right.